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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Toramana portrait from coin.jpg|thumb|According to the Sanjeli inscriptions, [[Alchon Huns]] ruler [[Toramana]] ruled in the area of [[Gujarat]].]]<br />
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The '''Sanjeli inscriptions''' consist in three copperplate charters found in [[Sanjeli]] in northern [[Gujarat]], dated to 499 CE, 502 CE and 515 CE respectively: they are the "Sanjeli Charter of the Merchants", "Sanjeli Charter of Bhūta" and the "Sanjeli Charter of Mātṛdāsa".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ray |first1=Krishnendu |title=MATERIAL MELIEU OF A WESTERN INDIAN VAISNAVA TEMPLE-CLUSTER: GLEANINGS FROM SANJELI COPPER PLATES (AD 499-515 AD) |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=2003 |volume=64 |page=255 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44145467 |issn=2249-1937}}</ref> The copperplates mention the rule of [[Alchon Huns]] king [[Toramana]] in the area, as ''mahārājādhirājaśrī toramāṇe'' ("Great King of Kings Toramana", in the Sanjeli Charter of the Merchants).<ref name="Bakker"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database IN00103 Sanjeli Charter of the Merchants |url=https://siddham.network/inscription/in00103/ |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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The first copperplate refers to the 3rd year of the reign of [[Toramana]], and describes pious gifts made by merchants in the area of Vadrapali in the district of Sivabhagapura.<ref name="Bakker"/><br />
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The copperplates also describes how the local king Maharaja Bhuta in [[Sanjeli]] was made Governor (visayapati)<ref>Indian Epigraphical Glossary by Dineschandra Sircar [https://books.google.com/books?id=pySCGvdyYLIC&pg=PA378 p.378]</ref> of the district of Sivabhagapura (northern Gujarat) by the grace of Toramana.<ref name="Bakker"/><ref name="Hans Bakker"/><br />
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The Sanjeli inscriptions indicate that Toramana penetrated at least as far as northern [[Gujarat]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salomon |first1=Richard |title=New Inscriptional Evidence For The History Of The Aulikaras of Mandasor |journal=Indo-Iranian Journal |date=1989 |volume=32 |issue=1 |page=28|doi=10.1163/000000089790082971 |jstor=24654606 |issn=0019-7246}}</ref> and possibly to the trading port of [[Bharukaccha]].<ref name="Bakker">The World of the Skandapurāṇa by [[Hans Bakker]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=6p2XCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 p.34]</ref><br />
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